I have an SNMP agent delivering a string, which I need to treat as a float. For example, it's reporting "0.000000017", and I need to treat it as 1.7*10^-8, so that I can generate warning/critical notices when it goes outside numerical bounds.
When I looked at the "conversion" "Available Data Transformations", they all assumed that the data was numeric to start with.
What do folks suggest?